Recode Decode: Rep. Adam Schiff

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Congressman Adam Schiff, who represents California’s 28th district and chairs the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the 2020 election, the Russia investigation, and more. In this episode: Schiff’s letters putting Facebook, Google and Twitter “on notice” for deepfakes in the 2020 campaign; the lack of tech regulation to date; Edward Snowden and the encryption fight; how things have changed since the Democrats gained a majority in the House of Representatives; partisan differences in the Russia investigation; Robert Mueller’s upcoming testimony; Trump, the new “Teflon president”; how Trump and Schiff use Twitter; “how do we get back to normal?”; Nancy Pelosi vs. the “squad”; replacing Mitch McConnell and defeating Trump; the greatest intelligence threats to the US; and what worries Schiff the most. Vote for us Recode Decode has been nominated for best technology podcast in this year’s People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Cast your vote for Recode Decode at https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup before July 31st. One vote per category. Follow us Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), host Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff), guest Erica Anderson (@EricaAmerica), executive producer Eric Johnson (@HeyHeyESJ), producer More to explore If you haven't already, subscribe to Recode Decode Subscribe to Recode's other podcasts: Recode Media, Pivot, and Land of the Giants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
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0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:20.1	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:25.5	You may know me as someone who thinks Megan Rapinoe should be in the line of succession
0:29.0	to the presidency, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode
0:33.1	decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:35.8	Today we're going to play an interview I just conducted with the United States Congressman
0:39.3	Adam Schiff who represents California's 28th District.
0:42.8	He's the chair of the House Intelligence Committee and has also been a leading voice on tech policy
0:47.3	in Congress, including issues like deep fakes, disinformation on social media and section
0:52.2	230 of the Communications Decency Act.
0:55.3	He recorded this interview in his office in Washington, D.C., so let's go there now to
0:59.6	hear my conversation with Congressman Adam Schiff.
1:05.0	So thank you for coming, Congressman Schiff.
1:06.8	My pleasure.
1:07.8	We're in your office here during a rainstorm on the House side and the Rayburn House office
1:11.8	building.
1:12.8	Let's talk a little bit about a letter you have just sent to Facebook, Twitter and Google.
1:18.5	So it's to Mark Sundar, Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.
1:25.0	Yes, we've written to them to essentially try to put them on notice about the problem of deep fakes.
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